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Since 1979 the World Economic Forum, a foundation based in Geneva, has produced annual reports on the relative competitiveness of countries (the term "country" as used in this report covers well-defined, geographically self-contained areas that are not states but for which statistical data are maintained on a separate and independent basis), tracing the extraordinary development of the world economy during the last twenty years. The Global Competitiveness Report uses a research-based Competitiveness Index in which rankings of relevant economies are given on a multitude of business and economic factors. From its inception, the Report has furnished specific competitive information on the world's key economies (59 this year), now presented with two page profiles for each economy. These profiles provide: major performance indicators; each economy's rank in competitiveness; and highlights of particular strengths and weaknesses. Each year the Report becomes an ever more refined analytical tool for exploring the exponential expansion of interconnections in our global economy.
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Mundania.......2001-01-29
Good for research but not exactly coffee-table blurb.
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This exciting new edition is packed with every legal definition you'll ever need to know!
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An excellent & handy resource for beginning law students!.......2001-08-30
Gilbert's Pocket Law Dictionary is a professional, succinct, and handy resource for beginning law, social studies, and government studies students. Its small, handy format makes it easy to have ready in any class, and provides professional and easy to understand definitions for the layman. There haven't been very many terms that I haven't been able to find in this professional yet affordable resource.
great for law students.......2000-03-31
This dictionary explains all those tricky latin words that pop up in your casebook. It is a lot more easy to understand than Black's and is lightweight enough to be carried in your backpack.
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Mini-Moosewood very mini.......2006-08-09
Had no idea this was really a tiny book -- and the list price was what I paid, so there was no savings. Either I read the description wrong or it was misleading - not sure which. But the service was good and delivery was prompt. My problem was with the book, not the sender.
A cute toy.......2004-01-02
It's not the real Moosewood cookbook. It's a stocking-stuffer, with about 25 recipes from the original.
The recipes are all good ones, though. They are all easily prepared, and easily adapted if you don't have quite the right ingredients. I know at least one child who might get some enjoyment out of it, partly because of of its unusual size.
This is not for the serious cook or the lifelong Moosewood fan. Taken on it's own merits, though, it could provide a bit of fun.
CAREFUL - it's a booklet - a baby.......2002-09-16
I thought this was a full size book. It's not. It's a tiny (2"x2") gift version. Great if you want to carry it around in your backpack, purse, or pocket, but very tiny print.
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Poverty, Economic Reform & Income Distribution in Latin America (Critical Perspectives on Latin America's Economy and Society)
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If the U.S. were to boast one great independent film director, he would be John Sayles. Since 1979, more than 10 years before the new wave of Indie pictures challenged the conventions of Hollywood moviemaking, Sayles has been creating magnificent and utterly original films. Even more remarkably, they differ radically from one another. Who could guess that the director of The Return of the Secaucus Seven and Baby It's You could turn around and make The Brother from Another Planet, that the man behind the fabulous Secret of Roan Inish was capable also of the socially conscious Matewan, City of Hope, and Lone Star?
This interview book, another in Faber and Faber's remarkable series devoted to filmmakers on their work, is published to coincide with the release of Men with Guns, Sayles's film for 1998. The director speaks about the way he works ("I wrote The Brother from Another Planet in about a week."), the themes of his films ("There is a fantasy children's movie in The Secret of Roan Inish, but finally there is also this realistic core to it."), and his political sensibilities ("One of the ideas I was trying to get at in Lone Star is that race is an illusion but culture is very real."). Perhaps because he is such a fine writer, Sayles proves an amazingly articulate speaker. Fans of the director, as well as those discovering Sayles for the first time, will be delighted by the director's personal insights and stories.
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John Sayles is a filmmaker of many faces: the writer/director of authentically independent films rooted in good talk, character study and social reflection (The Return of the Secaucus Seven, Baby, It's You, Brother from Another Planet, Matewan, and Passion Fish). He has also crafted vibrant, sardonic projects for Roger Corman (Piranha, Alligator and The Lady in Red), as well as working as a screenwriter-for-hire (The Hollowing, Apollo 13).
Recent films such as City of Hope and Lone Star exhibit his great gifts as he follows his characters' complex journeys towards self-honesty and personal truth.
Twice nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay, he has also written novels, short stories, a book on low-budget film-making, and created the television series Shannon's Deal.
In Sayles on Sayles, Gavin Smith takes Sayles step by step through the trajectory of his career and film-making practice, and in the process illuminates the work of the one of the truly authentic US independent film-makers.
Gavin Smith is a contributing editor to Film Comment.
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For lovers of Sayles' work this book is essential.......1998-10-16
If you're new to Sayles' movies or a long time fan, this book is a must. Gavin Smith asks probing and significant questions and Sayles provides insights about himself that are refreshingly matter of fact. The book is organized chronologically and examines each of Sayles' films. I have only seen Eight Men Out and Lone Star as of now but after this book I'm trying to see as many as I can. I've seen Lone Star twice and I'm going to buy the video. I rank it as one of my 10 all-time favorite movies because it is brilliant on so many levels.
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John Sayles, Interview
John Sayles
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This digital document is an article from Cineaste, published by Cineaste Publishers, Inc. on June 22, 1996. The length of the article is 4052 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
From the supplier: John Sayles movie 'Lone Star' is about borders existing in time, space and the psyche. Sayles's formal treatment takes these boundaries into the realm of the symbolic, mostly through his seamless transitions, from one location to another, from the present to the past, from one character to another. The movie is also about the politics of crossing borders and the conflict that results in the act of breaching those borders, not only between people, but also within the person who crossed over.
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Title: Borders and boundaries: an interview with John Sayles. (film director, scriptwriter)(Interview)
Author: Dennis West
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Date: June 22, 1996
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Volume: v22
Issue: n3
Page: p14(4)
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This digital document is an article from Cineaste, published by Cineaste Publishers, Inc. on September 22, 1999. The length of the article is 4559 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
From the supplier: Filmmaker John Sayles describes his film "Limbo," focusing on what it says about the Alaskan territory in which it is set and the theme of risk that is prevalent in the film. Topics include his reason for choosing Alaska as the movie setting, descriptions of the film's main characters and the film's artistic techniques and goals.
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Title: Not Playing by the Usual Rules: An Interview with John Sayles.(filmmaker)(Interview)
Author: Joan M. West
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Date: September 22, 1999
Publisher: Cineaste Publishers, Inc.
Volume: 24
Issue: 4
Page: 28
Article Type: Interview
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- A Loving Tribute
- Virtually transports the reader through time and space
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Dining at the Lineman's Shack
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Through a tantalizing smorgasbord of memories, stories, and even recipes, John Weston takes readers back to Depression-era Skull Valley in Arizona to paint a touching and often hilarious portrait of growing up, of rural family life under difficult circumstances, and of a remote community trying to hold body and soul together during tough times. His book is a captivating commentary on American culture, both in an earlier time and in our own, that will satisfy any reader's hunger for the unusual.
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A Loving Tribute.......2003-09-18
The cookbook as memoir probably began in 1959, when Alice B. Toklas' collection of recipes included one where she suggested serving, at a DAR Meeting, hashish fudge as a snack. John Weston's memoir, Dining at the Lineman's Shack doesn't serve up such confections, but it's a lovely book, and there are some fascinating recipes as well.
The book is essentially, a loving tribute to his mother, Eloine, who raised Weston and his siblings in a remote shack desert during the Great Depression. Like Steinbeck's Joad family, Weston brilliantly captures life in Skull Valley, AZ. Eloine had the remarkable knack of transforming whatever foodstuffs were available into culinary delights. Among the most surprising menu items Weston delights in describing are Calves' Brains and Scrambled Eggs, Rabbit Jerky. Eloine could disguise the more questionable fare as creatively as possible, making it exceedingly edible. Weston serves up the actual recipes for Mountain lion Barbacoa. Margarita's Yam Soufflé. Pastel de Choclo (Rodeo Pie) and Miss Ruby's Cupcakes. One hopes that Eloine's cooking pleased her diners in the manner that Toklas' delighted the robust Picasso and intimidated Hemingway.
Reared in the South and trained in the preparation of Southern cooking, following the death of her husband, a miner referred to, simply as "the dad," Eloine moved her family to Prescott, AZ and embraced Southwestern cuisine, including a love for chile peppers. Weston even includes authentic recipes for salsa and chile sauce. The loss of his father deeply affected him, and for a time, Weston fantasized his father's return, hoping their relationship would grow and change. Of course, this was never to be.
From chapter to chapter, Weston makes constant connections and strongly focuses on the presentation of his memories, much as a fine restaurant will focus on the presentation of a featured dish, as it's served to a leading customer. A fan of Opera, Weston would escape his Arizona childhood, rearing a family, teaching and writing. (His novel, Hail, Hero! was filmed in 1969, serving as Michael Douglas' film debut.)
Toklas lived in Paris with her "longtime companion," Gertrude Stein for 29 years, and her recipes are heavy with cream and butter. I've had little success with her recipes. Eloine's recipes are more accessible. Weston has settled with his longtime companion, Jim, in Palm Desert, CA. A genuine taste treat, Dining at the Lineman's Shack should be a prime addition to your summer reading list.
Reviewed by Steven LaVigne in White Crane Journal
Virtually transports the reader through time and space.......2003-06-19
Dining At The Lineman's Shack by academician and novelist John Weston is a memoir of 1930's Arizona, about growing up in a lineman's shack, coping with the difficulties of rural family life, enduring tough times with the comfort of a mother who can cook miraculously well with next to nothing for ingredients. A compellingly personal story, and one which is vividly descriptive to such an extent that it virtually transports the reader through time and space, Dining At The Lineman's Shack is exceptionally well written and very highly recommended reading.
Meals of Great Enjoyment.......2003-04-09
I have just finished a week of savouring "Dining..." bit by bit, bite by bite, many unexpected meals of great enjoyment. The work is compelling from the cover to the end, which of course begs a sequel. It is so like a novel, yet better than a novel with its many surprising branchings and final lingerings, the true stuff of life. And so erudite. And so generous with its scattered recipes for life. I feel richer having the book hand, both for its range of insights and its range of yummies. I know of no other memoir that yields this particular mix of pleasure.
Meals of Great Enjoyment.......2003-04-09
I've just finished a week of savouring "Dining..." bit by bit, bite by bite, many unexpected meals of great enjoyment. The work is compelling from the cover to the end, which of course begs a sequel. It is so like a novel, yet better than a novel with its many surprising branchings and final lingerings - the true stuff of life. And so erudite. And so generous withi its scattered recipes for life. I feel richer having the book handy, both for its range of insights and its range of yummies. I know of no other memoir that yields this particular mix of pleasure.
A watery bowl of memories.......2003-03-20
Blending memoir, recipes, and fiction, John Weston revisits his childhood in Arizona during the Great Depression, where his mother worked hard to create splendid meals for her children. There are a lot of brilliantly written passages where Weston reminisces, letting his mind drift from memory to recipe, and these moments are captivating. The fictional stories interspersed throughout, however, abruptly confuse the reader. The ingredients seem to all want to mix together properly, and at moments they almost achieve their purpose, but ultimately, by the final pages, they flop. Weston flips through his life's memories and doesn't share enough with the readers for us to understand the course of his life. He mentions having children, and briefly references Jim, his companion of over thirty years, but the threads connecting his life after childhood are meagerly explored. I wanted to like the book more, but I was left bewildered and wishing for more from "Dining at the Lineman's Shack".
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